The Peat Project • Partnership Peat Project is an initiative to bring together English, Welsh and Northern Irish departments and agencies to address peatland issues. • Phase 1 (ends Dec 09) aims to: – Improve coordination among partners’ work on peatlands – Collate evidence and promote research on the value and services of peatlands – Develop new approaches to reducing horticultural peat use – Review and develop policy that accounts for value and services of peatlands. – Develop guidance, tools, resources to improve peatland management – Develop framework to deliver peatland restoration
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The Peat Project
• Partnership Peat Project is an initiative to bring together English, Welsh and Northern Irish departments and agencies to address peatland issues.
• Phase 1 (ends Dec 09) aims to:
– Improve coordination among partners’ work on peatlands
– Collate evidence and promote research on the value and services of peatlands
– Develop new approaches to reducing horticultural peat use
– Review and develop policy that accounts for value and services of peatlands.
– Develop guidance, tools, resources to improve peatland management
– Develop framework to deliver peatland restoration
Background and Rationale
• Increasing interest in the importance of peatlands
– biodiversity
– stores of organic C
– GHG flux
– flood management
– water quality
– food production
– cultural heritage (leisure, archaeology)
• How peatlands deliver these depends on extent, management, cover, and condition
• Previously had no national picture of the state of our peatlands.
The Peat Project
• Natural England has been leading on mapping of peat status and location
• Mapping of peat location draws on NSRI, BGS, and NE BAP data
• Welsh peat mapping based on ECOSSE project
• Northern Irish peat map based on AFBI soils map.